BRITAIN should be working not just to leave the EU but also to destroy it, a Question Time audience member roared.

The UK's exit from the Brussels bloc has left many believing the federalist project is doomed to fail – with euroscepticism on the rise across the Continent.

Speaking last night on the BBC programme from south London, one audience member announced he wanted more than just Brexit – he wanted total destruction of the EU and its various bureaucratic institutions.

Responding to a comment made by another member of the audience about the fact Britain had an unelected Prime Minister, the man replied: "Just to go back to the point about an unelected Prime Minister.

"Let's go back to the point about the unelected European [Commission] President.

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The angry audience member tore into the Brussels establishment

"There is also the fact that you are missing the bigger picture as well we are not only trying to get Britain outside the EU, we are trying to collapse the whole EU itself.

"We are trying to get country after country to leave."

The Brexit voter then accused the EU of resembling the Soviet Union, also known as the USSR.

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"Everything that is on the ballot paper: Immigration, we would have to leave the single market... controlling our laws and Parliamentary sovereignty, we would have to leave the single market. Taking control of our money, we would have to leave the single market.

"Taking control of our money, we have to leave the single market, taking control of immigration, like I said, you've have to leave the single market.

"Saying that a hard Brexit, we didn't vote for, we actually did vote for it because the people who voted to leave the European Union voted for all of those reasons and we have to leave the single market to leave the European Union, there is no doubt about it, that has to happen."